Writing at Kotaku, Luke Plunkett has a very smart post up on the miserable options facing Game of Thrones fans when it comes to video games. The upcoming RPG looks startlingly bad, giving players only two class options and very little customization (including the inability to determine the sex of your character.) Writes Plunkett: Aside […]
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The success of Double Fine Adventure is spilling over into other crowd-funded video game projects on Kickstarter, according to a post on the company’s blog. The crowd-funding website reports that in the month leading up to Double Fine’s debut, the Video category averaged 629 pledges per week. A shocking jump in pledges occurred after the […]
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I’m still puzzling out how critics of the Retake Mass Effect movement can justify the ‘dangerous precedent’ argument. It’s tied rather closely to ‘artistic integrity’ I suppose; the former providing the intellectual gristle for the latter. If an artist changes his art for the fans, this sets a dangerous precedent for other artists, or so […]
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“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.” That’s the label Reps. Joe Baca and Frank Wolf want to place on every video game that hits store shelves. Well okay, not every video game. Just every game with an E (Everyone) rating or higher. Only EC (Early Childhood) games would avoid the […]
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I’m going to dip back into Tom Bissell’s excellent piece on Bethesda’s Skyrim for a moment, now that I’m up to speed on From Software’s Dark Souls. Bissell argues that the storytelling in Skyrim, and the vast amounts of dense expositional lore, serve as distractions from the immersive nature of the game itself. Far from […]
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There has been a great deal of speculation that the departure of Robert Bowling from Activision and Infinity Ward was due to these comments Bowling made on the subject of releasing old Call of Duty map packs for free: …here is my philosophy on throw back maps: Old school maps, I love maps like that, […]
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HBO has done just about everything right when it comes to its adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. The first season of A Game of Thrones was a beautiful retelling of the fantasy epic. Judging by the trailers, season 2 is going to be even better. Speaking of season […]
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One way to view history is to peer through the prism of progress; to refine the tangle of events into humanity’s long struggle toward liberty and peace. The modern era, from the time of the American Revolution onward, can be defined as the age of the individual. The Enlightenment spawned a chain of events that […]
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‘s long-term goal for the Xbox series of consoles was to take over your living room. While it’s true that the console’s chief attraction is gaming, you can also watch movies and listen to music, or stream instant video from or HBO GO. If the unit had a Blu-Ray player, it would be just about […]
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As I’ve continued to play through From Software’s excellent Dark Souls, one small thing has been chewing at the back of my brain. I’m still deeply engaged with the game, for so many reasons, but I can’t help but think that perhaps my favorite moment in the game (so far) occurred very early on. I […]
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